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DEFINITIONS

Postpone A postponed race is delayed before its scheduled start but may be
started or abandoned later.

Proper Course A course a boat would sail to finish as soon as possible in
the absence of the other boats referred to in the rule using the term. A boat
has no proper course before her starting signal.

Protest An allegation made under rule 61.2 by a boat, a race committee, a
technical committee or a protest committee that a boat has broken a rule.

Racing A boat is racing from her preparatory signal until she finishes and
clears the finishing line and marks or retires, or until the race committee
signals a general recall, postponement or abandonment.

Room The space a boat needs in the existing conditions, including space to
comply with her obligations under the rules of Part 2 and rule 31, while
manoeuvring promptly in a seamanlike way.

Rule
(a) The rules in this book, including the Definitions, Race Signals,

Introduction, preambles and the rules of relevant appendices, but not
titles;

(b) World Sailing Advertising Code, Anti-Doping Code, Betting and Anti-
Corruption Code, Disciplinary Code, Eligibility Code, Sailor
Classification Code, respectively Regulations 20, 21, 37, 35, 19 and 22;

(c) the prescriptions of the national authority, unless they are changed by
the notice of race or sailing instructions in compliance with the national
authority’s prescription, if any, to rule 88.2;

(d) the class rules (for a boat racing under a handicap or rating system, the
rules of that system are ‘class rules’);

(e) the notice of race;

(f) the sailing instructions; and
(g) any other documents that govern the event.

Start A boat starts when, having been entirely on the pre-start side of the
starting line at or after her starting signal, and having complied with rule 30.1
if it applies, any part of her hull, crew or equipment crosses the starting line
in the direction of the first mark.

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